But the host is not going to be alone in a quiet room in these kinds of situations. Say I try to thank Uncle Danny and Aunt Mary for hosting and slip out - I guarantee Aunt Patty and Aunt Kathy saw and will feel annoyed that THEY didn’t get a goodbye and mention it to Aunt Cathy and Aunt Mary Patricia and Other Aunt…

Cosign this entirely but in the spirit of hometown pedantry, I don’t think it’s necessary to qualify Cal’s status as “adopted” - Harford County isn’t another country, so he generally counts as a native son (especially since it’s still pretty rare to have a sports star play in the place they come from!). Poe,…

Yup. I appreciate the etiquette-based defense laid out above, but practically speaking this is a survival tactic so you don’t have to bid goodbye to all seven aunt Marys plus the four aunt Kathys and between 20-40 cousins*. You’d have to start saying goodbye as soon as you arrived to make it through all of them. And…

That’s the only reason I’m not more worried about Gendry, honestly. For a show burning through plot, it makes absolutely no sense to spend all that time in episode 5 bringing Gendry back to then immediately kill him off. The show that disappeared Syrio Forel doesn’t seem like the kind of show that will bend over…

Boy howdy do I want in your squad.

I’m not sure that even having Littlefinger in her ear for this many years of her coming-of-age will make Sansa realpolitik enough to marry her cousin.

I’d never thought of that, but could also see it. It honestly still feels too pat an ending for Sansa - at the end of the day, Gendry (once legitimized) is still a handsome, duty-bound nobleman - yeah, he’s from Fleabottom and rough around the edges, but he’s the kind of goodhearted, strong lord that she always…

I want them to unite to defang Littlefinger once they realize what he’s doing. I can see them coming to the brink of all out battle with each other...and then realizing they’re being manipulated, banishing him, and setting him up to make one last play next season. This requires them to be extraordinarily stupid for a…

The dragon scene last night was the first time I was like, ok, I see how this could work.

Assuming Jon and Gendry both live through this idiotic escapade north of the Wall, Gendry is 100% getting legitimized.

I feel the same. “The Killing Fields” is an important story too. I just think it’s problematic to say it’s THE story. We could do with more about this particular chapter in history in the mainstream public eye, anyway.

Nobody, as far as I can tell, is saying that it’s not a great movie. However, treating it as the definitive text on the Cambodian genocide (as the OP does) while “passing” on a different true story written by a Cambodian woman about her experiences is not a great look.

Still a story told through the lens of the white foreigners experiencing the genocide. This is something different - a story told through the eyes of a person who actually experienced it as a child. That alone makes it worth taking the time to see, I think..

Thanks for saying this. & also, this (the fact that colonial practices reduced the usage or eradicated languages around the world, not just First Nations languages) is also the reason I specifically focused my criticism on people discussing “white communities losing their accents because of globalization” as not being…

The NSF sponsors a Documenting Endangered Languages granting program (now with a solicitation for doctoral students working in this area, too) for just this reason. My university got a grant a few years ago to create a database of an indigenous language spoken in our state that only has about 50 native speakers…

I’d just like to note - because this story is important and some commenters seem confused - that it’s beyond appalling to compare white communities losing their accents because of globalization to the lingering effects of systematic cultural genocide that has marginalized and disempowered native communities for…

If they aren’t your thing, they aren’t your thing, and that’s fine. But if what you’re looking for is a high-quality ensemble action movie with a bunch of bonkers, well-staged, thrilling set pieces and dialogue that leans hard into cheese in a beautifully self-aware way, you really can’t beat this franchise. I spent…

It only implied the end of the series if you know little enough about the series to think that they privilege sensible titles over the ability to market as “F8.”

I’ll go to bat for her on this; obviously I can’t access it now, but she’s been really open and thoughtful about the question of critiquing people’s homes. Nobody has to live in a million dollar McMansion - she focuses exclusively on large, incredibly expensive houses that are poorly designed and poorly built. She…

It was Allison Williams! I remember because Mindy Kaling posted a picture on Instagram of her getting ice cream at the Friendly Store and I lost my mind.